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COMMUNITY Orléans NewsJanuary 22, 2015 l 44 pages

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COMMUNITY Orléans NewsJanuary 22, 2015 l 44 pages

Tech company wins Emmy AwardBrier [email protected]

A company that started in the bedroom of an Orléans home won an Emmy Award on Jan. 8.

While most people think of Emmy winners as those recognized for acting per-formances on TV – such as this year’s winners Jim Par-sons and Julia Louis-Drey-fus – the Emmys extend to technology and engineering

innovations that are used in media.

Orléans-founded File-Catalyst won an award for the company’s accelerated file transfer application and software, which allows large files, such as high definition video, to easily move from one location to another. It’s especially useful in situations where the two transfer loca-tions are located far apart.

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Like Tarzan boyFrom top left, St. Peter High School students Blair Plummer and Gillian Campbell and bottom, from left, Ashley Wells, Lindsay White and Skyler Slegtenhorst monkey around on one of the props they will use in the school’s upcoming performance of Tarzan. This year, the musical will move from St. Peter High School to the Shenkman Arts Centre. For the full story see page 4.

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Malinda Hapuarachchi, who grew up in Orléans, will take on European pow-erhouse teams as a part of Team Canada in the upcom-ing Indoor Hockey World Cup.

Hapuarachchi plays in-door field hockey, which she started after an impulse try-out during her first week as a Grade 9 student at Cairine

Wilson Secondary School. She played with a com-

petitive club in Ottawa, and eventually went to the Uni-versity of Toronto, which is known for having a strong field hockey team.

“That one decision to try out for that (high school) team really shaped the rest of my life,” Hapuarachchi said.

She played for the U of T Varsity Blues in Toronto, and now as a PhD student still at the school, acts as the team’s assistant coach.

She played outdoors with the Varsity Blues and for other teams and was briefly a part of the outdoor national program, but has found her

competitive niche in the in-door game.

The now 31-year-old is still a force to be reckoned with on the court, and will head to her second World Cup, which takes place in Leipzig, Germany, the first week of February.

She’s the only member of the team that travelled to the 2007 World Cup; Canada didn’t qualify in 2011.

The Canadians have to win at the Pan American Cup the year prior to the World Cup in order to qualify. The Canadi-an team won in 2014; a team that Hapuarachchi couldn’t play on because of academic commitments.

Indoor field hockey, a four-on-four sport played on a court, is very popular in Europe – especially Germany and the Netherlands, where Hapuarachchi played for sev-eral months after finishing her undergraduate degree.

She compared the Europe-an clubs to Canadian ice hock-ey clubs, with multiple courts and competitive divisions.

“Indoor is growing for a lot of the European teams,” she said. “And in Europe, every-one is so close to each other, it’s very easy to compete. In Canada we’re more isolated. To get to international compe-titions, it’s a lot more cumber-some.”

The Canadians are going into the tournament ranked 12th of the 12 teams, so they have realistic goals, including improving their position on the international stage.

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Malinda Hapuarachchi plays in December’s Four Nations indoor field hockey tournament. Hapuarachchi will play with Team Canada in the upcoming Indoor Hockey World Cup.

“That one decision to try out for that (high school) team really shaped the rest of my life.”Malinda HapuaracHcHi

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GIFTING TO CHARITY IS NOT JUST FOR THE WEALTHY. A LITTLE BIT GOES A LONG WAY!

It is a mistake to think that charitable gifting is only for people at a certain income level. Anyone can leave a charitable gift from their estate, regardless of the size of the estate. A gift is a gift, no matter how big or small and every bit helps and is appreciated. The good news is that including a gift in your Will is very easy

and will benefi t many people. A charitable gift to Forever CHEO enhances the quality of life for children and their families in our community and leaves donors with a sense of fulfi llment. Leaving a charitable gift also has some interesting tax benefi ts which are worth considering.

Another misconception is that you have to volunteer your time in order to give back to your community. Many hard-working people want to make a positive difference in their community, but don’t have time to do it. Leaving a legacy gift in your Will is a great way to give back to the community without having to compromise your time.

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Hapuarachchi said the team aims to have strong play in the opening rounds of the tournament and finish in the top eight.

That would mean upsetting higher ranked teams. Not all Canadian national teams receive funding from

Sport Canada; indoor field hockey is an unfunded sport. It means training, travel and competition costs fall to

the athletes themselves, many of whom have full time jobs or studies to deal with at the same time.

“You do it because you love it and you want to play at the highest level possible,” Hapuarachchi said. “It takes a lot of time and money to do these things.”

While there’s a chance this may be her last World Cup as she prepares to finish her studies at the University of Toronto, Hapuarachchi doesn’t see field hockey ever leav-ing her life.

“I feel like I’m going to be one of those people who will be involved in field hockey in some capacity for my entire life,” she said. “If it’s coaching, or if it’s being an old lady at 65 trucking around the field with my stick.”

What is indoor field hockey?

Indoor field hockey has a number of differences from outdoor field hockey, which traditionally has more visibil-ity in Canada.The indoor game is played on a court slight-ly bigger than a basketball court, and has boards along the sidelines to keep the ball in play – though not at the end of the court, where goals are scored.

“Outdoor, I generally equate it to soccer – 11 on 11 (and a) big-sized pitch,” Hapuarachchi said. “Indoor is a little

closer to ice hockey … it’s a lot faster game and generally it’s a higher scoring game than the outdoor version.”

She said the game is more complex because players are in tighter spaces.

There are also several rule differences, including lifting the ball with your stick. In indoor, the ball can only be pushed by the stick, unless being shot on net.

“It’s a very technical game,” Hapuarachchi said. Many Ontario national team members play indoor, and more players from the Western provinces find themselves on the outdoor teams. Some players play on both, but many players focus on one at the national level. “Because of the weather, we’re forced indoors to train,” Hapuarachchi said.

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an Ottawa woman faces impaired driving charges after a Jan. 15 colli-sion near Navan.

Police say the 45-year-old woman was driving an empty school bus to a school at about 2 p.m., where she was expected to pick up students.

The bus – owned by First Student Inc. – and a car collided at the inter-section of Navan and Milton roads, just west of the village of Navan. Police responding to the accident determined the bus driver was under the influence of alcohol.

The woman was charged with impaired driving and is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 29. First Student says the driver is no longer employed by the company.

four schools

School buses that serve Ottawa public and Catholic schools are

scheduled by the Ottawa Student Transportation authority.

Transportation authority general manager Vicky kyriaco said the route being covered by the driver arrested on Jan. 15 was expected to pick up students at four schools that afternoon:• Avalon Public School, Portobello Boulevard.• Dunning Foubert Elementary School, Prestwick drive.• Gloucester High School, Ogilvie road.• Colonel By Secondary School, Ogilvie road.

a written statement from First Student’s office in Ohio said the company is “saddened by this inci-dent, and are thankful no students were on board the bus at the time.”

“We understand the concern this has caused, and we want to reassure parents that safety is our core value at First Student and a responsibility we take very seriously,” the state-ment says.

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St. Peter High School stu-dents will get a big upgrade when they perform their an-nual school musical this year.

Instead of swinging from ropes and jumping as mon-keys in this year’s perfor-mance of Tarzan on the high school stage, they’ll work with professional technicians to perform the show at the Shen-kman Arts Centre.

The move to the Shenkman Arts Centre has been a long-time goal of teacher Bernie Leger, who directs the musi-cals and teaches many of the students who take part in the school’s academic musical theatre program.

“We hope we’ve moved in forever now,” Leger said. “Ev-eryone is gaining from real-life experience.”

It’s an excellent opportunity for students and the teachers to work with professional sound and light technicians and ex-

perience performing on the professional stage.

Students are able to get ex-perience using a rigging sys-tem, which will hook up ropes to act as vines for Tarzan and the monkeys to swing around on.

While renting Shenkman came with a steep price tag, Leger thinks it will be worth it, and expects it will make for a more enjoyable show, with 500 seats in a tiered arrange-ment, a bigger stage and pro-fessional sound throughout the theatre.

Because ticket sales are through Shenkman, those who purchase tickets will have as-signed seats, taking away the jockeying at the front of the au-ditorium doors that was com-mon on performance night.

Morgyn Davies, who plays Jane, said it will be an extra special performance for mem-bers of the cast, including she and Blair Plummer, who plays Tarzan, as it’ll be the last show before graduation.

The stage will be four times larger than the performance space available at St. Peter, so more props and sets will be needed. With a 25-member cast, everyone will be very vis-ible during the show.

“It’ll be a great show, full of energy and passion,” said Blair, a Grade 12 student.

Tarzan is a Disney musi-cal, with pop-rock songs and a contemporary dance style, said Morgyn.

“The theme is families,” she said, adding that the show is a good fit for all ages.

The music for the show will be performed by a 14-piece adult orchestra made up of community members and local music teachers, Leger said. They will be able to use Shenkman’s baby grand piano, which will add a new touch to the musical accompaniment.

Tickets are $15 per ticket at the Shenkman box of-fice, at shenkmanarts.ca. The show runs daily from Feb. 4 through 7.

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“It means being able to transfer the videos in minutes instead of hours or days,� said Orléans resident Christian Charette, the company’s director of product development.

While FileCatalyst’s application and software are used by a variety of clients, the award was earned be-cause of they are used in media and broadcasting.

When a large broadcaster set up a new television show in Los Ange-les and wanted to keep its editing staff in New York City, they used FileCatalyst in order to transfer the high definition video files back and forth quickly enough that editing staff didn’t have to relocate to the different cities.

During the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, American TV net-work NBC used FileCatalyst to transfer files between Sochi and Connecticut.

The company has come a long way since it started in co-founder John Tkaczewski�s Orléans house 12 years ago. The company later moved to Youville Drive in Orléans before expanding into their current home at Innes Road and St. Laurent

Boulevard. FileCatalyst employs about 25 people.

Tkaczewski and co-founder Chris Bailey invited Charette and several staff members along to Las Vegas to accept the Emmy.

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of their competitors for “push-ing forward the envelope when it comes to accelerated file transfer,” Charette said.

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we’re not normally ones to receive awards of this type. It was really fun to be recognized for all the hard work and dedication that we put into the company for the last 12 years.”

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The recipe that ran in the Jan. 8 edition of the Orléans News, provided by Foodland Ontario, contained incorrect instructions. This is the cor-rect recipe.

Who doesn’t love a cosy comforting chicken dinner? Here’s a quick way to get your fix in a winter salad. Feel free to use 500 millilitres leftover cooked chicken or turkey. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Roasting time: 30 minutes. Serves four.

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• 500 g (1 lb) boneless skinless chicken thighs• 7 ml (1-1/2 tsp) dried sage leaves • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) each salt and pepper• 1 ml (1/4 tsp) paprika (preferably sweet smoked)• Quarter peeled rutabaga, cut into 5-cm (2-inch) pieces• 3 peeled carrots, cut into 5-cm

(2-inch) pieces• 2 peeled parsnips, cut into 5-cm (2-inch) pieces • 20 ml (4 tsp) olive oil• 50 ml (1/4 cup) each dried cran-berries and pecans

Dressing• 25 ml (2 tbsp) olive oil• 15 ml (1 tbsp) white wine vinegar• 5 ml (1 tsp) coarse grain Dijon mustard• 50 ml (1/4 cup) coarsely chopped fresh tarragon leaves

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Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Sprinkle the

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We often lament chang-ing times, because times change from what we have liked.

When a bookstore shuts down, a depressingly familiar event in this town, there is a chorus of lament from book-lovers. When a familiar smoke shop shuts down, as Brittons did last week, the media are full of lamentations from former customers.

It’s all sincere. We like little bookstores. We hate it when they disappear. We love smoke shops, the ones with magazines and newspapers from all around the world. We want them always to be there.

But then, when was the last time we were in one? And don’t we read newspapers from all over the world online now? And don’t we buy online

subscriptions to those magazines? And didn’t we quit smoking?

Not that it will make any of us feel better, but it’s helpful, in facing up to change, to recognize that change isn’t some disembodied force that swoops down on us, closing book stores. Change comes, at least in part, from decisions we make. We could probably have stopped some of it, or at least slowed it.

Some of the decisions we make are smart ones, some are just lazy

and some are mixed. For example, it was smart to quit smoking, even though one of the functions of a smoke shop is to sell smokes.

But, buying magazine subscrip-tions online? Well, we could argue that we are saving trees by cutting down the volume of paper we pur-chase. But it could also be said that we were too lazy to support the store that sold those magazines. Maybe we didn’t think about the consequences.

The same goes for bookstores. First we moved away from the small-er stores to the big chains, because of greater variety and discounted prices. Our loyalty to the little shop on the corner lasted until we saw the first “40 per cent-off” sticker.

Whatever loyalty we had to the big chains began to dissipate when

we saw greater variety was to be had from Amazon and we didn’t have to go outside. And then there was another blow from progress, the invention of the ebook, which caused many of us to move away from printed books altogether in favour of stuff you can read on gadgets.

It wasn’t some dark force that caused all this. It was us.

We want things to be as cheap and as convenient as possible. Sure, there are corporations and governments that encourage us to indulging our little weaknesses. But it wasn’t a government, and probably wasn’t en-tirely corporate vileness that caused us to lose downtown movie theatres. It was people who wanted free park-ing at the suburban megaplex or a DVD in the comforts of home.

Similarly, it isn’t government and corporations that are causing the traf-fic unpleasantness we find ourselves in daily. It’s us, deciding we don’t

like to wait for the bus.This is quite a bit of scolding to

take out of the closing of one little smoke shop, but there we are. We could put it in our pipe and smoke it, as the saying goes, if we could find a place to buy one.

It seems Ottawa is once again picking up the provincial government’s slack, but this time it’s at the municipality’s request.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is proposing the city take the lead on a proactive measure designed to help young gang members break their criminal ties when they are released from jail.

After meeting with Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau on Jan. 12 to discuss a spike in gang violence across the city in 2014, Watson promised to find funding in the municipal budget to pay for a new “exit strategy” program.

Keep in mind, this is coming from a mayor who has pledged to cap annual budget increases at two per cent during his four-year term of office.

City hall is obviously feeling the pressure to do something after the city was rocked with a record 49 shootings – many of them gang related – last year.

A few councillors had even suggested providing money to hire more officers, giving Bordeleau the opening to break a police hiring freeze.

But the police chief says he has no intention of

requesting additional funds, and instead is beefing up the guns and gangs section by using officers from other units.

Of course, this is only a temporary solution, but then again, the spike in gang-related violence is a temporary situation, not a continuing trend, accord-ing to Bordeleau.

We won’t see immediate results from the mayor’s suggested exit strategy for gang members – this is a long term solution which will only bear fruit over the years to come.

As laudable a program as the exit strategy may be, we question the reason why the funding must come from the city’s coffers.

Any program attacking the rate of re-offence among young offenders should fall under the purview of the provincial or federal governments.

We applaud city council for taking the initiative, but perhaps the mayor should consider making a phone call to Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi, a local MPP and, co-incidentally, also the minister of community safety and correctional services.

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How many of you are using your exercise bike as a clothes hanger? Come on,

raise your hands.We’re three weeks into

the New Year, so resolutions should be pretty much out the window. With the cold weather, you should be back to eating cheese by the kilo, drinking red on a Wednesday and napping, instead of exer-cising, after work.

But we’re going about these resolutions all wrong – New Year’s or otherwise. Our brains are like dissident little children: The last thing they want to do is listen to what we have to say.

I think I’ve got a solution. First, forget the Band-Aid approach. You say you’re go-

ing to the gym five times per week? Your brain tricks you. You start out strong the first week. The following week you make it maybe four times, then two by the third week. Now you feel like a failure. It’s easier to dive into buttery popcorn while binge-watching Breaking Bad than to exercise.

So what are we doing wrong? It’s worth considering something I wrote about in the last issue – the teenage brain.

To summarize, teen brains are highly susceptible to behavioural reinforcement. In the early years of adolescence, we’re still developing our ex-ecutive functions. Our brains are also busy making connec-tions, with channels thicken-ing at a rapid pace. The habits we create as teenagers are the ones we’ll carry through for a lifetime. Scary stuff.

But here’s the good news. Although adolescence is a

time of rapid brain develop-ment, our adult brains remain plastic. That means we have the ability to retrain them, to reinforce positive connections in the hopes of eliminating the bad ones. The problem with New Year’s resolutions is they too often focus on the latter, phrased in the negative: Eat less junk food, lose weight, or stop watching TV before bed.

If you’re like me, even if you do set positive goals, you may have a tendency to be all or nothing. When I decide to do yoga, I don’t just do a class; I need to buy an unlimited monthly trial. I’m very optimistic about the capabilities of my future self, who will surely head out to the studio after dinner each evening. As a result, I haven’t

been to a single class in 14 years.

Let’s try a little experiment. Say you want to quit smoking. Positively, you want to breathe easier and be healthier. Forget about eliminating the negative channels for now – the ones that drive you to smoke and feel like a stinky loser that may die any day. Instead, resolve to reinforce positive behaviours in a limited way: I’m going cross-country ski-ing once per week.

Once you succeed in establishing a pattern, add something else to the mix. Maybe it’s simple like drink-ing more water. Don’t drown yourself in water. Just plan to take an extra sip a couple of times per day. See where that takes you.

Humans are creatures of habit. The more we do something, the more our brain wants us to do it. Breaking habits is hard. Creating new ones is also hard, but if you set reasonable expectations, it’s more possible.

Don’t overdo it. Set a goal to run – or go to the gym, or eat kale, or pray – once or twice per week. See if you start craving a run on your days off. If you do, indulge. If not, at least you’ve run twice this week.

I’ll let you know how it goes for me. My initial resolution was to become a cross-country ski champion by March, but I’ve decided a jaunt every Sunday is enough for my little brain for the moment.

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Police can throw all they have at gangs, but their efforts can only go so far without the public’s help, said Ottawa police at a recent meeting in College Ward.

More than 150 residents flocked to the meeting the evening of Jan. 13 to hear what police are doing to protect their neighbourhoods from the gang violence that has recently plagued the city.

Since Dec. 16, the 20 neighbor-hood police officers in the depart-ment’s west district have conducted 65 compliance checks to ensure those released from jail are meeting the conditions of their bail, said Insp. Sterling Hartley. He added that the same officers have also carried out 31 street checks and 28 traffic stops of known gang members.

The inspector said officers have also frequented hot spots of gang activity in an attempt to proactively suppress shootings.

“Every shift, they go out with that in mind,” Hartley said.

The police force has also rede-ployed resources to double the num-ber of investigators in the guns and gangs unit and has increased patrols in troubled areas.

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successful long-term strategy to snuff out gang violence.

“While the focus of the Ottawa Police is squarely on enforcement and proactive policing, we know that the solutions to this issue rest with the community at large,” Bordeleau said in the letter.

The meeting was organized by College Ward Coun. Rick Chiarelli and took place at Bishop Hamilton Montessori School, a few blocks from the site of the city’s 48th shoot-ing of 2014. A record 49 shootings were reported in Ottawa last year, many of which were gang related.

Chiarelli read out a number of questions pre-submitted by resi-dents. Many boiled down to what is being done and what the community can do to help.

Inspectors urged residents to call 911 whenever they witness any il-licit behavior or have any knowledge of gang activity in their neighbour-hood.

When asked how effective the police’s current strategy is at curtail-ing gang activity, inspectors said the Ottawa Gang Strategy, a plan intro-duced by Crime Prevention Ottawa in 2013, is a long-term program that would not yield results overnight.

“This is a marathon, not a sprint,” Hartley said. “We have to be pa-tient.”

Police have struggled to get charg-es laid in many recent shootings be-cause victims will not co-operate, and residents that might know some-thing will not come forward for fear of being labeled a rat.

Despite those challenges, police were able to seize more than 50 guns and arrest 83 gang members in 2014. police say the majority of the guns were smuggled from the United States.

Hartley reassured residents that while there is always a possibility a innocent bystanders could get hit by a stray bullet in a gang shooting, the likelihood is very low. There were no such cases in 2014, he said.

“(In) all of these shootings, there is a person being targeted” he said. “They are specifically looking to tar-get someone. They are not targeting innocent civilians.

“There is always the possibility a child in a playground could get hit and I don’t mind telling you I’ve had many sleepless nights worrying about that. If you’re going into per-centages, it’s very low, but I think any percentage is too high.”

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A recreational hockey player, who skated with the Ottawa brothers facing terrorism charges, described one of them as “kind of a hot head,” while “the other one seemed like a pretty nice guy.”

The player, who asked not to be identified, said he had played shinny with Ashton and Carlos Larmond at the St-Laurent Complex on many occasions and that the twins were always there.

“He always seemed like he was looking for a fight,” he said of Ash-ton.

Ashton, 24, was arrested on Jan. 9 and charged with facilitating ter-rorist activity, participating in the activity of a terrorist group and in-structing to carry out activity for a terrorist group.

His twin brother, Carlos, was ar-rested on the same day at the Mon-treal Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Inter-national Airport and was allegedly “intending to travel overseas for terrorist purposes,” according to the

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A third man, Suliman Mohamed, 21, was arrested on Jan. 12 for con-spiring to participate in a terrorist activity with the Larmonds.

Neighbors said the twins had lived on King George Street in Overbrook with their grandmother and that they had converted to Islam.

Ashton had sporadically attended the Assalam Mosque on St Laurent Boulevard, according to the con-gregation’s president, Abdulhakim Moalimishak.

“He was a drifter. He wasn’t real-ly part of our congregation,” he said. “He came in and out about two years ago. All mosques are open institu-tions, where anyone can walk in.”

Moalimishak said he was glad the state was able to prevent possible terrorist activity from happening.

“We as Muslims here in Canada want to protect our country and don’t want to hurt people or bring

disrepute to our religion,” he said.Ashton had joined a recreational

hockey league back in September called the Platt Hockey League, but quit abruptly and Carlos took his place, said Ken Platt, who runs the league.

“Ashton was a good hockey player and he was a nice guy and polite,” he said. “(He was) nothing out of the or-dinary. He was just one of the guys.”

Platt said he was especially shocked by the news of Ashton’s arrest because he was a good hockey player.

“You have to put some work into being a good hockey player,” he said. “Why would anyone want to destroy their life if they’re enjoying them-selves?”

Joseph Addelman, the lawyer repre-senting the Larmonds, told Metroland Media the brothers intend to plead not guilty.

“This case will determine the real value the Canadian justice system plac-es on freedom of religion, expression and assembly,” he said.

The two brothers appeared in court via video link on Jan. 10 and are next set to appear in court on Feb. 12.

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Freshly fallen snow was perfect for wagon wheel game

It had snowed heavily through the night, and when we got to the North-cote School, Cecil was

holding fort at the front gate. “Don’t walk in the yard.

Stay on the path to the door,” he instructed all of us as we neared the school. To go against Cecil could mean being maimed for life, so we did exactly as we were told. We knew why he was yelling out to us, of course.

The new snow would be just perfect for the big wagon wheel the senior boys would stamp out, creating a winter pastime every one of us loved, but I had trouble getting the hang of.

One path would lead to the wagon wheel, and you dare not put a foot off the path until you reached a starting point. I never could figure out the real object of the game, but my friend Velma said it was the same as a game of tag.

You had to run around the rim of the wheel, being chased by the leader. You could use one of the stamped out spokes, and if you were lucky, you reached the hub, and then you became the chaser. Of course, we younger girls didn’t have a chance in Hades of ever reach-ing the hub, but we ran like we were possessed nonetheless.

Miss Crosby, in a stroke of good humour, excused Emerson and Cecil long before recess so they could go out and stamp out the wheel in the new

snow. They came in just as the rest of the pupils were told they could get on their winter garb and go outside.

Our recess back then was only 15 minutes long, but that was time enough for all of us to have a quick run around the wheel, with the promise from Cecil that we would get down to a more serious game when it came lunch time.

All the while he kept warn-ing us not to put a foot off the path leading to the wheel, or to step off the wheel or spokes,

or we would have him to deal with.

It was hard to concentrate on our schoolwork for the rest of the morning, but a few cracks of the yard stick across her desk by Miss Crosby was all we needed to get down to the serious reason of why we were in school.

Finally, the big CPR clock at the front of the room told it was lunchtime. We ate up in a hurry, because we couldn’t wait to get outside to the wheel in the snow.

Cecil and Emerson were the first to head out the door, and the roars we heard from out-side could be witnessed over in Admaston.

When Velma and I finally managed to pile on the layers of winter clothes we wore at that time of year, and get out onto the front step, there was Cecil’s big Collie dog, sitting in the middle of the wheel like he owned the school yard.

It was obvious he had had a good run first. He had followed the scent of his owner round and round, and he came to rest on the hub, and you couldn’t tell where the spokes ended and the rim began.

The snow game had been ruined.

It wasn’t unusual for Cecil’s old Collie to appear at the Northcote School. Often we would come out of the school, and see him sitting on the step waiting for Cecil.

As far as Cecil was con-cerned Sport (it seemed to me back then that everyone had a dog called Sport) could do no wrong. Well, that day Sport’s owner was not at all pleased.

“Git,” Cecil yelled. “Git home with you.”Well, it seemed Sport knew

an order from his owner when he heard it.

But instead of going out to the gate by the path, he took another cut around the yard,

with his belly close to the ground, and whatever was left of the big wheel in the snow was gone forever.

Cecil and my brother Em-erson went and hung from the gate, which had been opened, and it would stay that way for the rest of the winter.

I wasn’t too disappointed in the turn of events, because I couldn’t run fast enough through the deep snow to avoid being caught, and all the time we played the game, I never once was the chaser in snow tag.

It remained clear and cold for days, and the mutilated wheel did little to make Cecil or Emerson any more easy to get along with.

They mostly hung out at the gate at recess and lunch time, and days later Velma said she knew for a fact Sport was kept in the cow byre, as the two boys waited patiently for another heavy snowfall.

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A bigger and better com-munity centre for Blackburn Hamlet is on the radar of both the local community association and the new city councillor in Innes Ward.

Coun. Jody Mitic ex-pressed support for more community space during the Blackburn Community Association’s annual general meeting on Jan. 15.

Mitic said an improved arena, an expanded commu-nity hall and a new site for the local library branch are all possibilities, depending on the city budget now tak-ing shape.

The current library is in rented space on Glen Park Drive, across the street from the arena and the community hall.

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Ever since Tom Heinemann was 11 years old, he’s been running soccer camps for younger kids.

The Ottawa Fury FC player, who signed with the club last year, has now launched an indoor camp in his ad-opted city. The organization that runs the sessions, Pro Futsal Training, will teach boys and girls, aged six to 14, soccer skills during the winter months at Our Lady of Peace School in Bells Corners.

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“Futsal is kind of on the forefront of the soccer community, especially here in Ottawa where there’s snow on the ground for much of the year,” Heinemann said.

“It’s great to be able to keep kids active indoors when they can’t go out-side.”

Each session, which run a bit more than an hour, includes footwork and exercises for the first half. The partici-

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“For the last half of the session, we’re just going to let the kids play, have fun and enjoy themselves,” he said.

Other trainers and fellow Ottawa Fury players participating in the training include Nicki Paterson, Ma-son Trafford and Carl Haworth. Be-

fore they launched the organization, they travelled around to a number of schools to hold demos and gauge in-terest.

“It’s a very neat way to give kids opportunity to play and gives us the chance to connect to the community in a time when there is more downtime for us,” Heinemann said.

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Heinemann said all are welcome to the sessions, which each have space for 20 participants, regardless of skill level.

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The camp runs Monday and Wednesday evenings and costs $150 for a month. Heinemann said he would be happy to pro-rate fees if some children cannot make it to all the sessions.

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Crime Stoppers in the National Capital Region has good cause to celebrate.

Not only is January National Crime Stoppers Month, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the program in the region.

It’s come a long way since 2012-13 when it was on the brink of bank-ruptcy.

Tips are up almost 20 per cent over 2013, and that means law-en-forcement agencies like the Ottawa Police Service, the RCMP, the On-tario Provincial Police and others across the country potentially have more information that could help them solve cases.

“Not only the number of tips has gone up, but the quality of tips over the last year has certainly increased,” said Richard McMullen, president of National Capital Area Crime Stop-pers. “And that results in more infor-mation for law enforcement, better resolution.”

Unlike other organizations, Crime Stoppers can’t trumpet its success and reveal if a specific crime was solved in order to protect tipsters’ anonymity “because there is only so many people that will have the infor-mation about the robbery or a gun incident,” said National Capital Area Crime Stoppers co-ordinator Sgt. Ar-thur Wong, who is on secondment to the program from the Ottawa Police Service. “We can’t let that out.”

Statistics for 2014 reveal that tips led to 36 arrests and 150 criminal charges and $2,625 in property and five firearms were recovered. More than 4,000 calls and web tips were submitted last year as well, repre-senting a 17 per cent increase over 2013.

“Now tipsters are giving us spe-cific information, names and ad-dresses,” McMullen said. “Certainly social media and media exposure has helped. I think the more we can get the message out there, the better.”

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Crime Stoppers, one of 38 inde-pendent Crime Stoppers programs in Ontario, began in the Ottawa region in 1985 thanks to business people in the community coming together to

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Some people are fearful of police, but McMullen said a tipster’s iden-tity has never been revealed. The information submission form on the website is encrypted, and calls are not recorded.

“We don’t subscribe to call dis-play, and we don’t ask for their iden-tity, and they don’t have to testify in court,” Wong said.

The program serves as an impor-tant tool for a number of criminal investigation units within the Ot-tawa Police Service, such as its rob-bery unit, which receives dozens of anonymous Crime Stoppers tips ev-ery year, which have led to several arrests.

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Tips have helped keep neighbour-hoods safe and saved police valuable time, McMullen said.

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“You can imagine it costs a lot of resources to investigate a crime and sometimes it takes months, weeks, years to fully resolve,” he said. “If they can be pointed in the right direc-tion, they can target those resources and that cost, so ultimately there’s savings to the community, but more importantly, it’s the reduction and resolution when it comes to crime.”

The role of Crime Stoppers has evolved since its inception, as has the nature of the tips that come in.

“Certainly back in 1985 when they began the program, I don’t think anyone envisioned taking tips on ter-rorist activities or radicalization of youth,” said McMullen.

An influx of more than 50 tips flooded the tip line in the days after the shootings at the National War Memorial and Parliament Hill on Oct. 22, 2014.

Sometimes all it takes is just one tip with enough details that can help investigators begin looking in the right place.

“The first year I came in I think we had two tips that came in for drug information that netted over $1 mil-lion,” said Wong. “You never know what comes up.”

Not iN it for the cash

The potential to earn a cash reward of up to $2,000 is another hallmark of the program.

When tipsters call or send in a tip through the Crime Stoppers website, they are given a special code, and are asked to call back to learn if their in-formation has led to an arrest, con-viction, identification of a suspect or

seizure of drugs or guns.But the majority of tipsters don’t

collect their money.“Whether they don’t care for the

money or they lost the code, we don’t know,” Wong said, adding that if peo-ple find their code, they can still call to check in to see if they are eligible for an award.

“Maybe it’s naive, but I think peo-ple want to do the right thing,” Mc-Mullen said.

Program officials are mindful that some tipsters could purposefully report false information if they are motivated by revenge or hope to lead police in the wrong direction.

“It doesn’t happen very (often),” said McMullen. “It isn’t like going to a judge and getting a warrant. Ba-sically, a lead for an investigator … has to do due diligence and has to conduct an investigation and gather their own evidence.”

There are also a number of checks and balances in place at the program to protect its integrity and prevent the unauthorized dispersal of finan-cial awards, including the monthly board approval for all payouts, board approval for expenses of more than $500, the monthly review of bank statements and an annual audit, Mc-

Mullen said.Whether or not the award is col-

lected, officials must ensure there is always enough funding to cover those awards.

And that takes fundraising. The registered not-for-profit,

which has a yearly operational budget of about $30,000, relies on donations from individuals and businesses.

In 2012-13 the organization was suffering from tough financial times, largely due to a challenging economy, and lackluster fundraising efforts.

“I was kind of taken aback that it wasn’t funded somehow by the public,” said McMullen, who heard about the program’s financial prob-lems and wanted to help, given his business expertise. He began volun-teering with the organization in 2012, and after about six months joined its volunteer board of directors.

“We’ve turned the corner on our financial concerns as of 2013,” he said.

Volunteers regularly do commu-nity outreach to promote the service and fundraise.

Crime Stoppers volunteers present to various groups and schools, hold information sessions in vulnerable communities, take part in parades

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To mark National Crime Stoppers Month, there will be information ta-bles at the Billings Bridge Shopping Centre on Jan. 16 and at the Bayshore Shopping Centre on Jan. 19.

To make an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers, call 613-233-TIPS (8477), or visit crimestoppers.ca. To report a life-threatening emergency or a crime in progress, call 911.

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Alta Vista resident Mike Banks spends 45 minutes on the bus every morning to get downtown.

But he’d rather live more cheaply in the suburbs if he could still get to work on time – or even earlier.

“My dream is to move to Riverside South and then commute by train,” Banks said.

If the O-Train were to connect to Bowesville Road just north of River-side South, he and his young family would move there “in a second,” he said.

That’s exactly what the city is pro-posing to do, although the extension of what the city now calls the Trillium Line – the north-south O-Train that currently ends at Greenboro station – is still in its infancy, with no time-line worked out and no budget dollars secured.

At a meeting at the Jim Durrell arena

on Jan. 13 residents got a detailed look at the city’s plans to bring the train fur-ther south to Bowesville Road, with a branch to the Ottawa International Air-port. The meeting was part of an envi-ronmental assessment process that city planners hope to formally wrap up by December of this year.

After that, it’s not clear how long it will take to put the plan into action; it has, however, been approved as part of the 2013 transportation master plan.

The extension is part of the city’s larger transit extension project it calls Stage 2, which includes the east-west Confederation Line through the down-town. Stage 2 will eventually add 35 kilometres of new rail to the city’s net-work and 19 new stations.

Several of those will be located along the Trillium Line, beginning with a new station at Gladstone Ave between Bayview and Carling stations and another at Walkley Road along the Transitway.

A new South Keys station would

become a bustling transit hub with commuters transferring to catch air-port-bound trains or to go downtown.

South of there, stations would be added at Leitrim Road and Bowesville, with an airport branch peeling off be-tween South Keys and Leitrim to cre-ate stations at the EY Centre and the airport’s busy passenger terminal.

All of the work would leave room for future conversion to twin-track electric rail sometime after 2031. The Trillium line currently uses diesel trains.

City planner Colin Simpson said the extension is an “affordable interim plan” that will provide more transit op-tions for riders while the city works to-ward its ultimate transit network goals that would take light rail into Barrhaven and Riverside South, as well as further east and west. He said the extension on the table now will accommodate rider-ship demands until about 2031.

Osgoode Coun. George Darouze said the extension would bring more options to residents in the south end,

which will help take pressure off the busy road network that rural and sub-urban residents rely on.

“For us it’s important because there’s always talk about congestion and expanding roads, but right now there is no appetite for that,” Darouze said. “I personally think this should have happened a long time ago.”

And some residents want to see it not only faster, but further: Walkley resident Will Rose said he can’t fathom why city planners would stop just short of Riverside South.

“I want to know why they’re go-ing to end the train at Bowesville in a farmer’s fi eld,” Rose said. He speculat-ed that south-end drivers won’t stop at the planned 2,500-spot park and ride to catch a train when they could just con-tinue up Limebank Road in their cars.

Peter Steacy with the MMM Group leading the environmental assessment said the decision to stop short is largely due to technology. The city’s Offi cial Plan requires diesel trains to be grade

separated at road crossings, he said, but not for electric light rail. Once the city converts entirely to electric tracks, they can bring the system into the sub-urbs.

Once the city converts entirely to electric tracks, they can bring the sys-tem into the suburbs.

The open house, along with another in Little Italy on Jan. 15, showed resi-dents the various options for station placement, grade separation and op-eration models.

Planners had to take the Leitrim wetlands into account when planning the preferred grade separation options for the south end extension. Where the track crosses Lester Road, the O-Train tracks will be built on an overpass. At Leitrim Road, however, the road will go over the train tracks so it doesn’t have to be rebuilt in 20 years when Leitrim is realigned further south to accommodate a new airport runway.

Feedback on the project can be sent to [email protected].

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Alta Vista resident Mike Banks spends 45 minutes on the bus every morning to get downtown.

But he’d rather live more cheaply in the suburbs if he could still get to work on time – or even earlier.

“My dream is to move to Riverside South and then com-mute by train,” Banks said.

If the O-Train were to con-nect to Bowesville Road just north of Riverside South, he and his young family would move there “in a second,” he said.

That’s exactly what the city is proposing to do, although the extension of what the city now calls the Trillium Line – the north-south O-Train that currently ends at Greenboro station – is still in its infancy, with no timeline worked out and no budget dollars secured.

At a meeting at the Jim Durrell arena on Jan. 13 resi-dents got a detailed look at the city’s plans to bring the train further south to Bowesville Road, with a branch to the Ot-tawa International Airport. The meeting was part of an envi-ronmental assessment process that city planners hope to for-mally wrap up by December of this year.

After that, it’s not clear how long it will take to put the plan into action; it has, however, been approved as part of the 2013 transportation master plan.

The extension is part of the city’s larger transit extension project it calls Stage 2, which includes the east-west Con-federation Line through the downtown. Stage 2 will even-tually add 35 kilometres of new rail to the city’s network and 19 new stations.

Several of those will be lo-cated along the Trillium Line, beginning with a new station at Gladstone Ave between Bayview and Carling stations and another at Walkley Road along the Transitway.

A new South Keys station would become a bustling tran-sit hub with commuters trans-ferring to catch airport-bound trains or to go downtown.

South of there, stations

would be added at Leitrim Road and Bowesville, with an airport branch peeling off be-tween South Keys and Leitrim to create stations at the EY Centre and the airport’s busy passenger terminal.

All of the work would leave room for future conver-sion to twin-track electric rail sometime after 2031. The Tril-lium line currently uses diesel trains.

City planner Colin Simp-son said the extension is an “affordable interim plan” that will provide more transit op-tions for riders while the city works toward its ultimate tran-sit network goals that would take light rail into Barrhaven and Riverside South, as well as further east and west. He said the extension on the table now will accommodate ridership demands until about 2031.

Osgoode Coun. George Darouze said the extension would bring more options to residents in the south end, which will help take pressure off the busy road network that rural and suburban residents rely on.

“For us it’s important be-cause there’s always talk about congestion and expanding roads, but right now there is no appetite for that,” Darouze said. “I personally think this should have happened a long time ago.”

And some residents want to see it not only faster, but further: Walkley resident Will Rose said he can’t fathom why city planners would stop just short of Riverside South.

“I want to know why they’re going to end the train at Bowes-ville in a farmer’s field,” Rose

said. He speculated that south-end drivers won’t stop at the planned 2,500-spot park and ride to catch a train when they could just continue up Lime-bank Road in their cars.

“Why not just do (extend to Riverside South) now,” he asked. “Building one station instead of two seems more ex-pensive in the end.”

Peter Steacy with the MMM Group leading the environ-mental assessment said the de-cision to stop short is largely due to technology. The city’s Official Plan requires diesel trains to be grade separated at road crossings, he said, but not for electric light rail. Once the city converts entirely to elec-tric tracks, they can bring the system into the suburbs.

Once the city converts en-tirely to electric tracks, they can bring the system into the suburbs.

The open house, along with another in Little Italy on Jan. 15, showed residents the vari-ous options for station place-ment, grade separation and operation models.

Planners had to take the Leitrim wetlands into account when planning the preferred grade separation options for the south end extension. Where the track crosses Les-ter Road, the O-Train tracks will be built on an overpass. At Leitrim Road, however, the road will go over the train tracks so it doesn’t have to be rebuilt in 20 years when Leitrim is realigned further south to accommodate a new airport runway.

Feedback on the project can be sent to [email protected].

[email protected]

City planner Colin Simpson explains the city’s proposed O-Train extension plans at an open house in the Jim Durrell arena on Jan. 13.



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The Ontario government is bolstering the services of sev-eral Ottawa non-profits in the hopes of preventing residents – seniors especially – from be-coming socially isolated.

Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi announced the program-ming grants on Jan. 8 during a visit to the Jewish Youth Li-brary of Ottawa. That library, located on Switzer Avenue, will receive $10,000 to provide a senior’s networking and educa-tion workshop series.

The money will be drawn from Ontario’s seniors commu-nity grant program.

“I’ve heard from many se-niors groups on a regular ba-sis that they don’t need a lot of money – they need a small amount of money to do targeted

programming for their seniors,” said Naqvi.

“More and more seniors are active, and they want more en-gagement within the commu-nity. It gets tougher, especially in the winter months … to do things. When seniors are ac-tive and healthy and network-ing, they’re not facing as many health challenges – they’re that more vibrant.”

Also receiving provincial funds are the Ottawa Sui Yi Multicultural Arts Academy, which will put its $3,000 grant towards brush painting classes. The $2,450 awarded to the Yet Keen Seniors Day Centre will be put towards a healthy eat-ing program, while the $1,870 going to the Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre will deliver seniors exercise programming.

Devora Caytak, executive director of the Jewish Youth Li-brary, quoted the famous words of the Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in describing the advancement of age.

“The soul never ages – it only becomes more vibrant,”

said Caytak. “To shunt the el-derly aside is not only cruel, he added, but foolish. The faster our world changes, the more we need the experience and wisdom of our elderly friends and relatives.”

Caytak said the lectures, talks and workshops planned by the library are a way of “ac-knowledging the wisdom and experience and knowledge that our seniors are endowed with.”

The Ontario Seniors Grant Program has been sourced for 16 projects in Ottawa, totalling $111,401 in grants.

Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi, front row, right, visited the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa on Jan. 8 to deliver a $10,000 grant on behalf of the Ontario Government. The library is just one of several Ottawa non-profits receiving grant money to bolster senior’s services. STePh WILLeMS/MeTROLAND

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City needs better “exit strategy” for gang members: Watson


A few days after Ottawa’s first shooting in 2015, Mayor Jim Watson said the city needs better services to provide gang members with an “exit strategy” to break out of their criminal past.

The mayor said he is prepared to work with the city manager to find funding in the city budget for a new program that would help gang mem-bers get back on their feet after they leave jail.

“One of the gaping holes that we have is we don’t have a plan in place through John Howard or other orga-nizations for a so called exit strategy when these people get out of jail,” the mayor told reporters at city hall on Jan. 12 after a meeting with Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau, Ottawa Po-

lice Services Board chair Eli El-Chan-tiry and MPP Yasir Naqvi.

“What do they do? Many of them go back to their old gang activity,” Watson added.

The mayor held the meeting to dis-cuss the city’s recent rash of gang relat-ed violence, after Ottawa saw a record 49 shootings in 2014.

The new year has not brought much relief from gang violence, as a man was shot on Riga Private in the city’s west end on Jan. 10, in what police said was a gang-related shooting.

Police had originally said the victim only had non-life-threatening injuries, but later said his health had deterio-rated and he was now in critical con-

dition.Despite the rise in the number of

shootings, Bordeleau has said he will not be requesting more police officers in upcoming budget discussions. He has, however, increased patrols and redeployed resources to double the number of investigators working in the guns and gangs unit.

Bordeleau said while police are committed to fighting the problem, a comprehensive long term solution is needed, which would include an exit strategy for gang members.

“Enforcement and suppression needs to be part of the overall gang strategy,” he said. “There is a gap in dealing with the young male adult coming out of jail or being arrested by the police service. There are no ser-vices out there that are there to support them in trying to get out of the gang.”

The police chief and mayor called the recent rise in shootings a “spike,” that they intend to monitor.

“This is a one-year spike. It doesn’t mean it’s a trend. In fact, the over-all crime rate in the city of Ottawa is down,” Watson said.

Watson said he wanted to reassure the public that Ottawa is still among the country’s safest, despite the record number of shootings last year.

“There are going to be no words that are going to be able to comfort people in communities that have seen gun violence on their streets, or in their parks or outside of a school, but we can do our best to address peoples’ peace of mind that we are committed to working on a holistic solution,” the mayor said.

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AIRPORT PARKWAY AND LESTER ROAD WIDENINGENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT STUDY

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015Jim Durrell Recreation Centre, Ellwood Hall

1265 Walkley Road6 to 8:30 p.m. (presentation at 7 p.m.)

OC Transpo routes 1, 8, 41, 87, 114, 144 and 146. Free parking is available

The City of Ottawa has initiated the Airport Parkway and Lester Road Widening Environmental Assessment (EA) Study to determine the most appropriate means to accommodate and manage increasing transportation requirements related to growth in the surrounding communities and airport lands as illustrated in the key map.

There will be ongoing public consultation activities during the course of the study. This first Open House will provide an overview of the study progress to date including an overview of existing conditions, reconfirming the project need and justification for widening as well as an evaluation of alternative solutions. Your participation in Open House meetings is an important component of the study where you can discuss the project with the study team and provide feedback.

The EA study is being undertaken in accordance with Ontario’s EA Act, fulfilling requirements as a Municipal Class EA process for a Schedule ‘C’ project. The EA process will involve developing, assessing and evaluating alternative designs, leading to a Recommended Plan which will be presented to City Council for approval.

Information about the study is available on the City’s website at ottawa.ca/airportparkway. The Open House information will also be available on the web site.

Interested persons can provide comments throughout the EA process. Any comments received will be collected under the Environmental Assessment Act and, with the exception of personal information, will become part of the public record.

Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation, please call or e-mail the Project Lead below before the event.

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With the Beer Store’s unique position in the Ontario market increasingly under scrutiny, the retailer controlled by a trio of foreign-owned

producers recently offered an olive branch to the small craft brewers in the province.

In a Jan. 7 media release, the Beer Store announced it would offer small brewers who produce less than one million litres per year a chance to sit on the board of directors, as well as the chance to have two of their products sold at the fi ve closest Beer Store locations to their breweries, at a reduced stocking fee. Reduced rates for buying preferred shares in the com-pany was also included as part of the offer.

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Cases of beer are seen in a convenience store in Quebec, where the sale of beer and wine is permitted in grocery stores and other private establishments. In Ontario, small brewers and beer drinkers alike are balking at the government-sanctioned single-retailer model.


Confederation Line East Light Rail Transit (LRT) Extension

Ottawa Road 174 / Prescott-Russell County Road 17 WideningEnvironmental Assessment Studies

Open Houses

Confederation Line East LRT ExtensionThe City of Ottawa is undertaking an Environmental Assessment (EA) Study for the extension of LRT from Blair Station to Trim Road along the Ottawa Road 174 (OR174) corridor in accordance with the Transit Projects Assessment Process. This LRT line will provide fast, reliable service to the communities of Beacon Hill, Blackburn Hamlet, Orleans, and rural Cumberland. A total of eight stations are proposed between Blair Station and the Trim Park and Ride.

Highway 174/County Road 17 WideningThe United Counties of Prescott and Russell in partnership with the City of Ottawa are undertaking a Class EA study for the OR174 and Prescott-Russell County Road 17 (CR17) corridor from Highway 417 to County Road 8 (Landry Road). This Study is being carried out in accordance with the requirements for a Schedule ‘C’ project under the Municipal Class EA process.

Consultation was held in 2013 to introduce the need for alternative solutions to address problems on the OR174 and CR17 corridor.

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including the preferred road corridor

This is the second round of public consultation for the OR174/CR17 widening EA study and the first round of public consultation for the East LRT Extension EA Study to review and discuss the project with the study team and solicit feedback.

The East LRT extension is one of three environmental assessment studies underway as part of Stage 2, the City’s plan to extend the benefits of rail to residents further east, west and south that will add 19 new stations and 35 kilometres to our LRT network.

Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation, please call 3-1-1 or e-mail the project lead below before the event.

If you are not available to attend the Open House or would like additional information, please visit the study web site at ottawa.ca/easternlrt or at www.prescott-russell.on.ca/en/public-works/major-projects or ottawa.ca/hwy174and17study or direct your comments and questions to the contact person below. The Open House presentation material will be posted to the study web site. For further information on this project, or to be added to our mailing list, visit the web site or contact:

East LRT and OR174/CR17 WideningAngela Taylor, P. Eng.Senior Project EngineerCity of OttawaTel: 613-580-2424, ext. 15210E-mail: [email protected] Funding for the Highway174/County Road 17 Widening EA Study is being provided by the Government of Ontario.

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“The Beer Store is a great beer retail sys-tem,” Beer Store president Ted Moroz said in a media release. “As a result of these changes all Ontario brewers will be able to participate in the management of the company and the small-est Ontario brewers will get improved opportu-nities to grow their sales volumes at a signifi -cantly reduced cost.”

The offer, which occurred as the provincial government weighs its options on reforming the Beer Store retailing structure, was met with a frosty reaction from the Ontario Craft Brew-ers association.

The group, which represents more than 50 small Ontario breweries, didn’t raise a glass to the Beer Store’s announcement, and instead said that they hadn’t been consulted on the is-sue.

“The announcement today by the Beer Store regarding opening ownership for Ontario’s small brewers came as a complete surprise to our members,” said OCB chairman Cam Heaps in a media release.

“It certainly does not address our major issue of improving access for consumers … Our goal continues to be fundamental change to Ontar-io’s beer distribution channels that will result in a doubling or tripling of the jobs currently created by craft brewers as well as the ability to reach our full share of market potential.”

Despite the bluster, the companies that cur-rently control the Beer Store – Belgium-based AB InBev, American fi rm MolsonCoors and Japan’s Sapporo – would still hold 12 seats on the 15-seat board of directors. The company’s virtual lock on the Ontario beer market would also continue.

The Beer Store followed up the announce-ment with three media releases issued over 17 hours, each one touting positive reactions by smaller brewers and the public.

Many believe the actions of the Beer Store are meant to sidestep the franchise fee that Pre-mier Kathleen Wynne has suggested should be charged to the Beer Store in exchange for their

continued operation in the province.Local craft brewers, of which Ottawa has

many, regarded the proposal with caution – bal-ancing their eagerness to reach larger markets with the concern of what long-reaching limita-tions they could saddle themselves with.

Rob McIsaac, co-owner of Beyond the Pale Brewery in Hintonburg, said the offer to stock a limited amount of their product at the Beer Store would make their operations more cost-effective, but admitted he hadn’t had time to think it over.

“(The Beer Store) realized change was com-ing, and they’re trying to get in front of it,” said McIsaac. “They’re throwing us a bone, and we will see what the value of that bone is.”

Beyond the Pale employs 12 people, and will be moving to the City Centre complex this spring to continue an expanded operation. Mc-Isaac said the Beer Store is just one discussion small brewers are having, given that archaic provincial laws hamstring their operation in other ways as well.

Broadhead Brewing Company co-owner Josh Laroque said the offer “seems like a step in the right direction,” but added that “it’s hard to assess exactly what it means.”

Laroque said their brewery, which employs eight people, had been hoping for a more open system of beer distribution in the province. While breweries are allowed to run retail stores in the buildings where their beer is brewed, La-roque said an extension of the LCBO that ca-tered to their product or a boutique store that offered Ontario craft beers would be a prefer-able model.

Such boutique craft beer stores already ex-ist in Quebec, where beer sales are completely privatized and can be sold at convenience and grocery stores.

“At the end of the day, we’re all just small businesses, and it’s hard to get your name out there,” said Laroque. “At the Beer Store you’d be there, but people wouldn’t know you’re there. In the LCBO model, you’re on the shelf and have a higher visibility. Getting your name out there is the biggest challenge.”

Craft brewers say they weren’t consulted on Beer Store plan


Public Open House Consultation

François Dupuis Recreation Centre Expansion

Monday, January 26 7 to 8:30 pm

François Dupuis Recreation Centre2263 Portobello Boulevard

Avalon Room

You are invited to attend a community consultation to review, discuss and comment on preliminary designs for the expansion of the François Dupuis Recreation Centre. The proposed expansion will include a gymnasium and multi-purpose room.

City staff and design consultants will be present to answer questions.

For more information, please contact:

Kevin Jones, Project ManagerParks, Recreation and Cultural ServicesTel: 613-580-2424, ext. 24339E-mail: [email protected]

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Rockcliff e Hosers looking to build own rink of dreamsMichelle [email protected]

One of the city’s best-maintained community rinks is working towards becoming the fi rst to operate above and beyond the city’s traditional skating season.

The Rockcliffe community rink has more than 120 vol-unteers who help fl ood, shov-el and maintain the outdoor rink, which is operational typically before many other rinks in the city thanks to the Rockcliffe Hosers. The group comprised of volunteers from the neighbourhood who can spend up to two hours a night, sometimes in the frigid cold, to ensure children can skate on the rink the next morning.

But the community is look-ing to make this rink even better.

The plan is to build a fi eld house and permanent con-crete pads and boards for a rink in the winter and sports court in the summer.

Montgomery said building the fi eld house and having a skating rink controlled by cooling cement pads would optimize the skating season for residents in the area.

“We think we can go from November to mid-March with a permanent rink -- all without the city’s help,” said Brian Montgomery, head of the Rockcliffe Hosers. “Now we are at the mercy of wait-ing for the city to put up the boards and drop off the trailer so we can have electricity.”

The plans for a fi eld house are being made after the for-mer rink shack, which used to exist on the property, was torn down by the Ottawa-

Carleton School Board due to safety concerns.

Montgomery started a campaign in 2011 to build the rink and facility. In order to ensure a permanent rink was indeed what the community wanted, the group conducted an independent census in 2012. The census surveyed all 650 homes in Rockcliffe.

Montgomery said there were 250 responses and 77 per cent of the homes were in favour of the project.

“We were very, very pleased with the responses,” he said. “There is clearly a need for a recreation facility in the neighbourhood.”

After the consultation process, the Hosers received support from the Rockcliffe Park Residents Association to support the rink project last year.

A once informal group of rink rats, the Hosers applied to become a corporation shortly after and Montgom-ery said they expect to re-ceive charitable designation this year.

The rink will be similar in size and style as the Ottawa Senators Foundation com-munity rink in Lowertown at Jules Morin Park, with a concrete base and permanent boards.

In the winter months, cool-ing pads would allow the community rink to open as soon as the temperature drops below 10 C and could remain operational until late March, even April if the temperature allows.

The addition of a fi eld house will offer electricity and change rooms and wash-rooms year-round.

The plans do not come cheap -- the project will cost $980,000 to build both the fi eld house and the cooling pads. Having already ap-plied for a grant with the city called the Community Part-

nership Major Capital Pro-gram, Montgomery said the village will need to only raise $490,000.

The Hosers began offi cial-ly fundraising in November, with local students visiting all 650 homes in Rockcliffe to drop off pledge forms. Montgomery said the group is asking for a donation of at least $490 from each house-hold and so far, he said he has been pleasantly surprised.

“Cheques are coming in more than a trickle, less than a deluge but most are coming in are for the full amount,” he said.

When people donate, homes have the opportunity to place a “We Support the Rockcliffe Rink Project” sign on their lawn.

“I would like to have ev-eryone in the neighborhood to donate, because it is for the neighborhood,” Montgomery said.

And true to form, the plan is to make the rink fi rst and foremost a community space. The goal is to raise both funds

for the construction as well as additional operational costs so the group will not need to rent out time to cover costs.

There is also Hoser swag available for purchase -- toques, sweatshirts and sweatpants residents can buy which have the Rockcliffe Hosers logo on it. So far, $2,000 worth of merchandise has been sold for the project.

Montgomery said they will release a retro line -- a line with the original Hosers logo, as well the group plans to open a Shopify store for the cause.

Aside from swag, there will also be monthly fund-raising events which will be hosted by different Hoser members.

Montgomery said he hopes to reach their fundraising goal by the summer and re-ceive approvals for construc-tion from the city in the fall, with construction could begin as early as next as spring.

To donate or fi nd out more information about the project visit rockcliffehosers.com.

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Sports to play major role at this year’s WinterludeMichelle [email protected]

Canadian sports will be front and centre at this year’s Winterlude Fes-tival.

The festival kicks off on Jan. 30 and to mark the year of sport in Can-ada, visitors will be invited to admire athletics-themed snow sculptures in Confederation Park, play soccer in the snow with the offi cial mascot of the FIFA Women s World Cup Canada, Shuéme, as well as have the opportunity to learn more about other activities at the winter sports and games playground in Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau.

In addition to celebrating sports, the festival will also pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Canadi-an Flag with a fl ag raising ceremony in Confederation Park on Feb. 15 as well as celebrations of the 200th an-niversary of the birth of Sir John A. Macdonald, which will take place at Jacques-Cartier Park.

Cracking up the Capital, a com-edy festival will take place during Winterlude and participate in a num-ber of festival activities, including attempting to break the Guinness world record attempt to build the most snowmen in an hour at Lans-downe Park. The number to beat is 1,300 and according to Guinness, a snowman is defi ned as at least three feet tall with two eyes, a nose and arms.

Snow Art snow sculptures will be on display in the Byward Market and a scavenger hunt at the Diefun-bunker, Canada’s cold war museum in Carp.

Communities will be hosting their own Winterlude activities include at Lansdowne Park, where residents

have been invited to compete in the City Snowscapes Community Show Sculpture Competition as part of the city’s Winter Design Festival. The competition will be showcased during the winter festival from Jan. 30 to Feb. 16 and the sculptures are scheduled to be built between Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 at 2 p.m. This event marks the fi rst celebration of Winterlude at the redeveloped Lansdowne Park. Sculptures will be judged on cre-ativity, technique and effort, visual appeal and communication -- the power of the sculpture to capture and hold the interest of the viewer.

A full list of Winterlude’s part-ners and events is available at cana-da.pch.gc.ca/services/culture.

Leading up to the festival the National Capital Commission offi -cially opened the 45th season of the Rideau Canal Skateway on Jan. 10, opening the section from Somerset Street to Bank Street, and Patterson Creek on Jan. 12. On Jan. 15 all 7.8 kilometres was ready for skating.

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• Confederation Park, OttawaThis park will once again play

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: [email protected]

Jan. 23Endangered Country is entertaining 7 p.m. to midnight at the Orleans Legion, 800 Taylor Creek for your listening and dancing plea-sure. Buffet dinner available 5:30 to 7 p.m. For more information call 613-830-9984.

Jan. 24Fundraising breakfast 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Orleans Legion, 800 Taylor Creek. Home-style cooking served by friendly volunteers. For more information call 613-830-9984.

Musical jam session from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Orleans Legion, 800 Taylor Creek. All en-tertainers welcome; meet fellow entertainers and try new material. For more information call 613-830-9984.

Greater Orleans Canada Day Celebration Trivia Night registration at 6:15 p.m. and event from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Door prizes, licensed bar, live auction, raffle. At Orleans Legion, 800 Taylor Creek. Cost is $25 per person or $150 for a team of up to eight. All proceeds in support of the Greater Orleans Canada Day Celebration. Information: [email protected] or [email protected].

Jan. 25Auditions for Mary Poppins, which will run in May. Call to register: 613-580-2764. OYP Theatre School, the Shenkman Arts Centre.

Jan. 27Arteast’s monthly Grow with Art meeting and annual general meeting begin at 7 p.m. at 255 Centrum Blvd., room 340. Presentation

by David W. Jones on One Painter’s Life: I’m Just a Lucky So and So. For information email [email protected]. Jones is one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters. For over 35 years, he has exhibited extensively across Canada, Japan, Italy and the United States.

Your east-end political representatives invite you and your family to a community New Year’s Levee between 6 and 9 p.m. at the Shenkman Arts Centre, lower lobby, 245 Centrum Blvd. Light refreshments. In lieu of admission, non-perishable food items will be accepted for the OCCRC and EORC food banks.

Jan. 31An evening with Mary Cook, an award-win-ning broadcast journalist, an accomplished author, a beloved storyteller and a seven-time ACTRA award winner, at Queenswood United Church, 360 Kennedy Lane East at 7 p.m. There will be time for questions and answers and she will have some of her books for sale. Dessert and coffee will be served. Tickets are $12.50 each. Please contact Kim at 613-837-6784.

Feb. 3Everyone Loves Trees! Ecology Ottawa and RBC are hosting a free workshop to intro-duce Tree Ottawa and the scope of our work to the residents of Orléans from 7 to 9 p.m. A range of experts will present on topics such as the emerald ash borer and the city’s tree planting program, the benefits and consider-ations of planting local indigenous trees, and on how to organize a successful tree planting event in your neighbourhood. Meet at RBC

Convent Glen, 6505 Jeanne D’Arc Blvd. N.

Feb. 21, Mar. 21, Apr. 18Come out an meet your neighbours at the Epiphany Anglican Church’s Good Food Farmers Market at 12990 Ogilvie Rd. from 9 a.m. to noon. Affordable fresh and healthy fruits, vegetables, dry goods as well as free refreshments. The market will take place indoors. For more information: [email protected] or call613-746-9278.

OngoingRegistration for the Cumberland United-Unis Soccer Club’s Summer Programs is open. Our summer programs are designed for the recreational player to the elite player ranging from the ages of three to adult. Interested in joining the competitive Cumberland Cobras or our academy programs? Evaluations for these programs will begin in the middle of February. Take advantage of our early regis-tration specials before March 1. Visit www.cumberlandsoccer.com for details.

Attention graduating students. Bursaries are available from the Orleans Legion to qualify-ing students. Application deadline March 27. For more information and application forms go to www.rcl-zoneg5.ca/forms/BRBurApp.pdf or call 613-830-9984.

Are you between 13 to 17 years old? Come and join the Orléans Teen Ski Club this win-ter for some great skiing and snowboarding. The club is a community based non-profit ski club run by volunteers for the benefit of our members. Check us out at www.otsc.ca for membership benefits and outings. Please

contact Ed Geier at 613-604-0894 or Jim Yip at 613-830-6402 for more details.

The Orléans Mats for Humanity group is looking for people who could help us cut, crochet or weave strips made from milk bags into mats for people in underdeveloped countries. These mats provide them with a dry, durable and bug free place to sleep. No experience necessary. Workshops held every third Tuesday of the month. Contact Danielle at [email protected] for more info.

MondaysThe Orléans Racquetball Club enters its 25th season at the Bob McQuarrie Complex. We play every Monday, from 7 - 9 p.m.. All levels of play from novice to expert are welcome. Club Membership costs nothing and it is $8 per day to play. Memberships at the Complex are also available. Contact Ian Gadbois at [email protected] for more details.

Non-profit weight-loss group TOPS meets at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday evening at the Or-léans United Church,1111 Orléans Blvd. We feature weigh-in, short programs on weight loss methods, ongoing contests and prizes.

WednesdaysThe first and third Wednesdays of the month, a support group for both grandparents who feel alienated or estranged from access to their grandchildren and to parents estranged from their adult children will be meeting at the Portobello Manor at 961 Valin St. Meet-ings will be the first and the third Wednes-days of the month at 7 p.m. Email [email protected] for more information.

Toastmasters – Need to make presentations at work or at social events? Have a fear of speaking in public? The Dawn Breaker Toast-masters Club can help you overcome these fears in a friendly, non-confrontational atmo-sphere. Meetings are at 7 a.m. on Wednesday mornings located at 269 Laurier Ave. West. Please contact Vicky at 613-834-1562 for more information.


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Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Contradicted 7. The Donald’s Marla 13. Mediterranean sandstorm 14. Shoulder adornment 16. Earth crust’s 5th element 17. Rainbow prize 19. NCIS star’s initials 20. Mischa __, violinist 22. Constitution Hall org. 23. More dried-up 25. First on moon 26. Braid 28. 11% of Guinea population 29. Sea eagle 30. Scottish variant of “to” 31. A border for a picture 33. Belonging to a thing 34. On top 36. Automobile hood (Brit.) 38. Skewered Thai dish 40. Clamors 41. Eggs cooked until just set

43. Flat 44. 13th Hebrew letter 45. Short poking stroke 47. Japanese classical theater 48. 007’s creator 51. Romanian Mures river

city 53. Music term for silence 55. A crane 56. Ringworm 58. Romanian money 59. True frog 60. Integrated circuit 61. “Highway Patrol’s”

Crawford 64. Point midway between S

and E 65. On a whim 67. Protagonist 69. Quantity with only

magnitude 70. Oversights

CLUES DOWN 1. One who operates a dial 2. Trauma center 3. Prickly pear pads 4. Fashion superstar 5. Shock treatment 6. Mindless drawing 7. AKA migraine 8. Military mailbox 9. Buddies 10. Heavy tranquilizers

(slang) 11. Raised railroad track 12. School session 13. Picture 15. Stabs 18. Supervises flying 21. Early American

militiaman 24. Downfall 26. Cooking vessel 27. Check 30. In a way, manipulated

32. Sacred book of Judaism 35. Chum 37. Negating word 38. Relating to the body 39. W. hemisphere continents 42. Make lacework 43. Witty remark 46. More hairless 47. Relating to a nerve 49. Originates 50. Consumer advocate Ralph 52. Actress Winger 54. Center for Excellence in

Education (abbr.) 55. Japanese brews 57. Fleshy seed covering 59. Canadian law enforcers 62. So. Am. wood sorrel 63. Actress Lupino 66. Personal computer 68. Do over prefix

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

Take a leadership role on a work assignment, Aries. If your interest in work has been waning of late, a more active role may help you change your perspective.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

Taurus, there is nothing you cannot accomplish this week. The sky is the limit in terms of your potential. All you need to do is focus your energy on a particular task.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21

Let something that’s been bugging you cool off for the time being, Gemini. There’s plenty of time to revisit the situation later, and you will be glad you took some time away.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

You’re willing to give a loved one the benefit of the doubt when that person makes a proposal that seems to come out of nowhere. Your patience will be appreciated.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

Expect to be surprised by good news, Leo. Share your good fortune with others this week, and you will realize the good news will prove even more enjoyable.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

You may benefit from a change of scenery, Virgo. If you have the time, book a getaway to an exotic locale and make the most of this time to rest, relax and recharge.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

Libra, rest assured that a broken heart or bruised ego will not last too long. There are big changes ahead in your personal or professional life, so keep your eyes open.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

Taking charge comes naturally to you, Scorpio. In fact, you thrive in this role. But this week you may have to play second fiddle for the good of the team.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

You seem to be operating on auto-pilot this week, Sagittarius. Your routine has become so ingrained that things are automatic. Make a few minor changes to liven things up.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Spend the week in as much quiet contemplation as you can manage, Capricorn. You have a few big questions to work out and can only think when you have private time.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

Aquarius, dissatisfaction at work has you wondering if things would be different elsewhere. Sometimes a change of attitude can give you an entirely new perspective.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

Pisces, a loved one comes to you seeking guidance this week, but don’t be bummed if they ultimately do not heed your advice.

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